Saka Light Cavalry

Wednesday, 11 December 2013

Stocking up on the Basing Materials

In a bid not to loose momentum once the Painting Challenge kicks off I have bought some much needed grass tufts as I was getting rather low. These were bought from Tajima1 on the recommendation of Andrew Saunders via a recent post. So I ordered a couple of boxes and was rewarded with a e-mail within about six hours saying that they would be mailed the following day and a couple of days later, here they are.

I went for wild grass and small green grass tufts. They look fine and I will on the back of looking at these a couple of other sized tufts which I will try and get on order in the next day or two as I will need some of the larger tufts for the 28mm figures.

The wild grass is shown with the 6mm Baccus gun I recently painted up and I think will work as small tufts for 28mm figures and standard tufts for the 15mm figures.

So thank's Loki I am fairly sure you will manage to part me from more cash as the challenge goes on. So if your in the UK you can get packs for about £6-7 including postage. Outside the UK you need to add £1.50 for three or less packs. Ordering more than three? Well then no postage charge is added. The box these come in is a nice sturdy box that will survive the postal system and is a nice neat small box that is easy to see what you have left and when you need to get more stock in.

All in all a great addition to my painting armoury and as these are self adhesive it may save on the splashing round of the god old PVA.

@ Andrew, well I will be using a few before bed tonight so will let you know

@ Dave, I also have used minatur ones and really like them but I buy straight fro the manufacturer in Germany, the postage is cheap and you can buy the larger packs. I think they are still cheaper than these but the ease of packaging, stacking etc. might make these the choice I will run with long term.

@ Happy, I like the puffs of smoke too, especially when they are painted up to have the flames near the muzzles

@ Vinnie, well proof is in the eating so I should have a better idea toorrow

@ Smillie, They do look the business and I expect good things

@ Scott, ah you see, blog networking at it's finest

@ James, 15 boxes???!!!, now that's some cash investment and I hope you get through the lot in the Challenge

@ Michael, seems word is spreading and to be honest it's this type of thing that is not measurable but also proves the value of blogging to the companies we blog about